This blog will consider some techniques for labeling or filtering Internet to protect children while allowing freedom of access and speech for adults. The blog has been expanded to include some other recent specific problems involve protecting minors (such as with cell phone use).

About Me

Since the 1990s I have been very involved with fighting the military "don't ask don't tell" policy for gays in the military, and with First Amendment issues. Best contact is 571-334-6107 (legitimate calls; messages can be left; if not picked up retry; I don't answer when driving) Three other url's: doaskdotell.com, billboushka.com johnwboushka.com Links to my URLs are provided for legitimate content and user navigation purposes only.
My legal name is "John William Boushka" or "John W. Boushka"; my parents gave me the nickname of "Bill" based on my middle name, and this is how I am generally greeted. This is also the name for my book authorship. On the Web, you can find me as both "Bill Boushka" and "John W. Boushka"; this has been the case since the late 1990s. Sometimes I can be located as "John Boushka" without the "W." That's the identity my parents dealt me in 1943!

Monday, May 06, 2013

The story of former (Beauvoir school) teacher Eric Toth, who
lived on the lam for five years under different identities, pretending to be a
tech writer and speaker and even drug counselor, after fleeing Washington DC in
2008 when a report surfaced of his
filming child pornography, does present a certain odd paradox.

Justin Jouvenal ran a detailed account (:The Alias Artist") about his life on the
run int eh Washington Post today, link here. What seems so odd is that, for a time, he (alias
David Bussone) had agreed to live in poverty in Phoenix in a homeless shelter,
and actually was an effective volunteer working with the “downtrodden”.

Willingness to do so often lives at the heart of religious
(especially Roman Catholic) teaching (look at the values of the new Pope
Francis). However, there seems to be an
odd psychological twist. Toth seemed to
eschew intimate relationships with other young adults (male or female) who
could take care of themselves, could
perform productively in society on their own, and who could accept or reject
him as another “equal” adult.

I’ve written about “upward affiliation” and “radical
hospitality” on other blogs, with a certain degree of self-criticism. Focusing on relationships with adults who can
actually judge and criticize you sounds like a healthy thing, important for
psychological growth as one moves into adulthood. It’s gotten seen to be selfish,
self-contained, and too unable to sustain other people in a way that keeps a
free culture going.

It seems as though Toth wanted relations with people over
whom he could wield power in one direction.
It’s hard to believe he could have, under this masquerade, actually
helped people – yet apparently he did for a while. That would be relevant eventually in his
sentencing and rehabilitation. My
experience has been that people who can’t talk back and make their own
decisions in life, once they’re adults, never can go anywhere and be effectively
helped. I know this statement sounds
smug, but that’s what I’ve experienced.

Toth eventually wound up on the FBI’s “most wanted”
(replacing Osama bin Laden) and was arrested in Nicaragua when recognized.

Friday, May 03, 2013

I have finally taken the step to restore a few
instances of “coarse language” at a few specific points in the online copy of
my 1997 book, “Do Ask Do Tell: A Gay Conservative Lashes Back”, in Chapters 1,
2, and 3, accessible here. I have left the replacement text intact following each instance (1 in Chapter 1, 4 each in 2 and 3) in parentheses, delimited by double "++" signs.

I had been a plaintiff (sponsored by Electronic
Frontier Foundation) in opposing the Child Online Protection Act of 1998 which,
after a protracted series of litigation events (and two trips to the Supreme
Court) was finally overturned in a “trial on merits” by a federal judge in
Philadelphia, the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, with the opinion rendered
on March 22, 2007 (explained that date on this blog).

I think it is useful to give again the link of my
affidavit in the case, as filed (with EFF and the ACLU) in December, 1998, from Minneapolis where I
was living at the time. Points 18-20
cover the “self-censorship” that I had felt needed to be done at the time in
order to be safe under COPA. The link is here.

This has become a "forgotten" issue. But I think it's useful to bring things up to date.

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